Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Oracle JET Offline Persistence Toolkit - Offline Update Handling

Oracle JET Offline Persistence Toolkit supports offline update, create and delete operations. In this post I will describe update use case. Read previous post related to offline toolkit, where I explain how to handle REST pagination, querying and shredding - REST Paging Support by Oracle Offline Persistence in JET.

This gif shows scenario, where we go to offline mode and then changing data in multiple rows. Data update happens offline and each PATCH request is tracked by offline persistence toolkit:


As soon as we go online (Offline checkbox value is changed in Chrome Developer Tools) - requests executed while offline are replayed automatically against backend server:


We should see, how update flow is implemented in JET in this particular case. Once data is changed, we call submitUpdate function. This function in turn calls JET Model API function save. This triggers PATCH call to back-end to update data. If we are offline, JET offline persistence toolkit, transparently records PATCH request to be able to replay it later while online. There are no specific code changes needed by developer to support offline logic during REST call:


Once we go online, listener is invoked and it calls our function synchOfflineChanges. This function triggers request replay to the backend. This means we can control, when requests are replayed. Besides this, we can control each request which failed to be replayed - this is important, when data conflict happens during update in backend:


Online handler is registered with window.addEventListener in the same module, where persistence manager is defined:


Offline Persistence Toolkit 1.1.1 supports extensive logging. You can update to 1.1.1 version by running: npm install @oracle/offline-persistence-toolkit command:


To enable persistence toolkit logger, add persist/impl/logger module to your target module and call logger.option('level', logger.LEVEL_LOG):


Logger prints useful information about offline update, this helps to debug offline functionality:


Download sample application from GitHub repository.

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